International journal of advanced smart convergence

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OverIT: An Interactive Overlay for Touchscreen-based UI Customization by Demonstration

  • Lee, Kyungyeon (Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Chung, SeungA (Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Oh, Uran (Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ewha Womans University)
  • Received : 2021.08.02
  • Accepted : 2021.08.10
  • Published : 2021.09.30
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Abstract

Smartphones have been widely used for various purposes and stay connected with people at all times. However, the use of such touchscreen devices can be physically restricted depending on users' context where only one hand is available to interact with the device. Even major smartphone manufacturers (e.g., Apple, Samsung) offer one handed mode, they still lack functions in the third-party applications, and the process is also complicated. We propose OverIT, a system that enables users to customize interfaces by adding new buttons on an interactive overlay which can be positioned anywhere on the touchscreen where each button serves the same functionality as an existing one. It is designed to support users to map a certain button event freely and easily to a newly created button by performing a demonstration of a button tap. We expect our system to improve the overall user experience of one-handed interaction with touchscreen devices.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. NRF-2021R1F1A1052786).

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